Art will always be art.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

All things are only transitory.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.